Organizational Development Partner

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world's leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

As an OD Partner, you'll help shape our organisation by leading strategic initiatives to improve effectiveness, culture, and capability. You'll work with senior leaders and HR to drive change, support growth, and embed new ways of working at Avaloq.

Key Tasks

• Strategic OD Consulting
  
  Partner with HR Leadership and business leaders to diagnose organisational challenges and co-create solutions that align with Strategic People Plan.
• Change & Transformation
  
  Lead and support change initiatives, including operating model redesigns, team effectiveness, and culture change, ensuring people are at the heart of transformation.
• Leadership & Talent Development

Embed leadership behaviours through coaching.  Build clear talent pipelines and capability across organisation to ensure we are future-ready.

• Culture & Engagement
  
  Shape and embed our desired culture through values-led initiatives, employee listening strategies, and inclusive practices.
• Organisational Design
  
  Support structural design and workforce planning, ensuring alignment with business goals, scalability, and agility.
• Data-Driven Insights
  
  Use people analytics and qualitative insights to inform OD interventions, measure impact, and continuously improve.
• Collaboration & Capability Building
  
  Build OD capability across the HR and coach leaders to adopt systems thinking and adaptive leadership approaches.

• Preferably with at least 8-10 years of relevant work experience
• Proven experience in OD, change management, or strategic HR roles within fast-paced, complex environments
• Strong consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Deep understanding of organisational systems, culture, and behavioural science.
• Proven project management expertise.
• A strong customer focus, with proven capability to establish and maintain robust working relationships with senior managers up to C-suite level.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and influencing at senior levels.
• Data-literate with the ability to translate insights into action.
• Curious, collaborative, and committed to continuous learning.
• Ideally possesses certification in coaching, psychometrics, or change methodologies

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.